Education
She attended Presbyterian Ladies" College, Melbourne and the University of Melbourne, training in physiotherapy and, later, criminology.
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Phyllis Frost
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She chaired the Victorian Women"s Prisons Council for many years, established the Keep Australia Beautiful movement, worked for Freedom from Hunger and raised millions of dollars for charity. Phyllis Irene Turner was born in 1917 in Brighton, Melbourne. The latter would help her to better understand the female offenders, to whom she had committed her assistance.
At university she met Glenn Frost, whom she was to marry in 1941.
The couple had three daughters. Deer Park Metropolitan Women"s Correctional Centre was renamed the Dame Phyllis Frost Centre.
Achievements
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Phyllis Frost was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in the 1963 Queen"s Birthday She was appointed a Dame Commander of the order (Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in the 1974 New Year"s, for "outstanding service to the community". In the 1992 Australia Day, Dame Phyllis was named a Companion of the Order of Australia (Air Corps). On 1 January 2001, she was awarded the Centenary Medal, "for long and dedicated voluntary service to welfare at local, state and national levels".
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Australia